Sunday, October 5, 2008

What is a long term summary for the Shirley Jackson short story, "Charles"? What are four rising actions in the story?

's short
story, "," tells the story of a mother watching her little boy transforming from an
angel to a holy terror right before her eyes. Laurie is the young son of the narrator who is
suddenly becoming unmanagable, due in part, the mother believes, to a new friend at
school--Charles. In the end, the teacher tells the mother


"Charles? We don't have any Charles in the kindergarten."


There is no Charles: It is a wakeup call for the mother, who
realizes that all the bad stories about the non-existent Charles were actually committed by her
own Laurie.

Rising action occurs when:

  • Laurie
    comes home from the first day of school, slams the door and screams at his parents.

  • Laurie gleefully tells his parents on the second day of school that Charles has hit
    the teacher.
  • Laurie is rude and disrespectful to his father, calls him
    "dumb," and then laughs "insanely."
  • Laurie reports that
    Charles has finally been good at school and has been rewarded with an apple.

 

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